ROUND 1: ZONE 3.3 OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

It was a bloody Round 1 at the start of the Zone 3.3 Open Chess Championship that runs from May 24 to 30 at the Tagaytay Convention Center in Tagaytay City.

The dramatic first day of event saw the promising games of Filipino youth versus the Filipino legends, with FM Haridas Pascua beating GM Eugene Torre and FM Jan Emmanuel Garcia, fresh from winning a gold medal in the Asian Youth Chess Championship 2011, splitting the point with the current No.2 strongest player of the country, GM Joey Antonio.

The power of the Filipino youth was simply felt in the initial salvo, with untitled Alcon John Datu halving the point against GM Cerdas Barus, and the newly crowned national juniors champ NM Mari Joseph Turqueza essaying a draw with Black versus IM Roland Nolte.

If the promising performance of the young Filipino participants holds until the finish - we pray - we could see a new Filipino IM at the end of this tournament.

How we hope and pray, too, to see young Filipinos gaining IM norms at the culmination of this event.

Notable performers in ROUND 1:

FM Haridas Pascua (win vs GM Torre)
FM Jan Emmanuel Garcia (draw vs GM Antonio)
Alcon John Datu (draw vs GM Cerdas)
NM Joseph Mari Turqueza (draw vs IM Nolte)

Pairings/Results

Round 1 on 2011/05/24 at 1600

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	GM	Zhang Zhong	2592	0	1 - 0	0	FM	Kasmiran	2346	24
2	25	FM	Garcia Jan Emmanuel	2344	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Antonio Rogelio Jr	2589	2
3	3	GM	Cao Sang	2547	0	1 - 0	0	FM	Novita Anjas	2344	26
4	27		Olay Edgar Reggie	2343	0	0 - 1	0	GM	Paragua Mark	2542	4
5	5	GM	Gomez John Paul	2538	0	1 - 0	0	IM	Tirto	2337	28
6	29		Gunbayar Myagmarsuren	2334	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Megaranto Susanto	2529	6
7	7	GM	Laylo Darwin	2516	0	1 - 0	0	FM	Habla Jony	2333	30
8	31		Legaspi Rhobel	2329	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Dao Thien Hai	2512	8
9	9	IM	Barbosa Oliver	2506	0	1 - 0	0		Nasanjargal Urtnasan	2325	32
10	33	FM	Pascua Haridas	2323	0	1 - 0	0	GM	Torre Eugenio	2495	10
11	11	GM	Nguyen Anh Dung	2481	0	½ - ½	0	FM	Khairul Anam	2319	34
12	35	FM	Segarra Randy	2311	0	½ - ½	0	IM	Bitoon Richard	2480	12
13	13	IM	Nguyen Huynh Minh Huy	2464	0	½ - ½	0		Kaisar Jenius Hakiki	2258	36
14	37	IM	Bao Khoa	2256	0	½ - ½	0	FM	Nguyen Duc Hoa	2458	14
15	15	IM	Nguyen Van Huy	2454	0	1 - 0	0		Surya Wahyudi	2234	38
16	39		Datu Alcon John	2218	0	½ - ½	0	GM	Barus Cerdas	2443	16
17	17	IM	Nolte Rolando	2429	0	½ - ½	0		Turqueza Mari Joseph	2181	40
18	41		Paez Alfredo	2146	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Goh Wei Ming Kevin	2424	18
19	19	GM	Liu Dede	2418	0	0 - 1	0		Tong Thai Hung	2103	42
20	43	FM	Bersamina Paulo	2098	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	2408	20
21	21	IM	Purnama Tirta Chandra	2404	0	1 - 0	0		Polao Ben	2074	44
22	46		Alidani Leonardo	1985	0	½ - ½	0	FM	Hamdani Rudin	2368	22
23	23	IM	Halay Taufik	2346	0	0 - 1	0	FM	Tin Jingyao	1859	47
24	48		Emperado Emmanuel	0	0	½ - ½	0		Ricana Leodegario	2068	45